Louisiana v. Callais · ¶125
And finally, today, the last piece—Section 2 as applied to redistricting. The last, and surely the hardest, for just three Terms ago the Court upheld a vote-dilution challenge to a districting map in a case much like this one—preserving Section 2 as a tool to prevent racially discriminatory redistricting. See Allen, 599 U. S., at 17. “[W]e decline to adopt,” the Court said then, “an interpretation of § 2 that would revise and reformulate” our “§2 jurisprudence [of] nearly forty years.” Id., at 26. Nothing has changed in the three years since. Yet today, the majority does “revise and reformulate” . . . and destroy. It avails itself again of the tools used before to dismantle the Act: untenable readings of statutory text, made-up and impossible-to-meet evidentiary requirements, disregard for precedent, and disdain for congressional judgment. And in that way it greenlights redistricting…Read in context ›
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